Prominent Experimental Physicists
Famous experimental physicists include:
- Alhacen (965–1039)
- Carl David Anderson (1905–1991)
- John Bardeen (1908–1991)
- Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)
- Gerd Binnig (1947–Present)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973–1043)
- Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–Present)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
- William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)
- William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971)
- Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)
- James Chadwick (1891–1974)
- Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990)
- Steven Chu (1948–Present)
- John Cockcroft (1897–1967)
- Marie Curie (1867–1934)
- Clinton Davisson (1881–1958)
- Charles Drummond Ellis (1895–1980)
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
- Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- Al-Khazini (fl. 1115-1130)
- Max von Laue (1879–1960)
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958)
- Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
- Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931)
- Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)
- Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962)
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970)
- John William Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh) (1842–1919)
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923)
- Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
- William Bradford Shockley (1910–1989)
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
- Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940)
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Famous quotes containing the words prominent, experimental and/or physicists:
“The vain man does not wish so much to be prominent as to feel himself prominent; he therefore disdains none of the expedients for self-deception and self-outwitting. It is not the opinion of others that he sets his heart on, but his opinion of their opinion.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is based on induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.”
—Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)